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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1878

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The Extension of the Railway to Hay. (Abridged from the Wagga Express.) Public Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 November 1878 · page 4

The public meeting, adjourned from Monday evening in consequence of the inclemency of the weather, was held on Wednesday evening at the Court House. The night was, if…

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Railway to Hay

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 13 November 1878 · page 2

The subject of the rival routes for the extension of the railway to Hay was brought before the Minister of Public Works by two influential deputations, which waited on…

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Archibald Forbes As a Railway Man

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 16 November 1878 · page 4

Forbes (says a correspondent of the above paper) was rusticated for disrespect to the professors it King's College, Aberdeen, and would have been expelled but for the…

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Gah Adopted in Railway Trains.—a

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 4

trial of the now system of lighting railway carriages by gas, instead of by the oil lamps at present in use, was made on Monday last, and proved an unqualified success. The…

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The Proposed Railway Reserves. ( From the S. M. Herald.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 4

One of the best provisions in the new Land Bill, namely, that for the reservations of land on both sides of intended lines of railway, and for the subsequent sale of such land by auction only,…

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Cost of Coal for Railways

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 4

The S M Herald says:—Some time ago Mr Woods, the Commissioner for Railways in Victoria, informed a deputation that one reason why New South Wales could carry goods…

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